Warning:
due to the gritty nature of "Fight Club", a high percentage of
its filming locations are found in urban areas that may have a high crime
rate, and could be dangerous to visit - particularly those in the less
reputable parts of downtown Los Angeles and Wilmington. Exercise reasonable
caution.

In a harrowing
scene, Brad Pitt assaults an Asian man behind his liquor store,
pointing a gun at the back of his head and telling him he is going to die.
Eventually, he lets him live, on the condition that he resume following
his youthful dream of being a veterinarian. That liquor store was actually
North Star Liquor,
and it was located just east of the topless bar
in Wilmington,
at 1109 W. Harry Bridges Blvd,
east of Hawaiian Ave. Like the topless bar, and everything else on that
block, it was torn down. *

Two of the assignments
turn sour, when a Fight Club member is shot & killed by a guard. The
assignments were to destroy a work of public
art, and to trash a franchise coffee
bar. The guys try to combine the two,
by blowing up a huge, ball-shaped sculpture, sending it rolling it into
a coffee bar. That scene was shot at the Water
Court at California Plaza,
350 S. Grand Ave
(between 3rd & 4th), in downtown Los Angeles. (As you can see
in this matching
photo, the sculpture isn't really a part of the cascading fountain
there.)

( The coffee
bar is now a Starbucks,
but it's not in the same plaza. Instead, it's located next to those
steel Michael Heizer shapes
we previously saw, at 444 S. Flower St.
)

The movietheatre
scene, where BradPitt
splices single frames of pornography into a family film, were shot at the
historic Los Angeles Theatre,
located at 615 S. Broadway,
in downtown Los Angeles.
Closed to the public most of the year, the Los Angeles Theatre is often
used for movie shoots, but the interior can be viewed by the public once
a year as part of the annual "Last
Remaining Seats" festival.
*

The hotelrestaurant
scene, where Brad Pitt 'contaminates' the lobster bisque, was shot at the
Biltmore Hotel,
which is located at 506 Grand Ave.,
in downtown Los Angeles.

The later
scene of a politician giving an anti-crime
speech at a hotel gathering (where they
kidnap
and threaten the police commissioner) was also filmed at the Biltmore.

There is a scene
where the Fight Club vandals blow up a computer
shopcalled
"Lightning Electronics"
(the fiery explosion rips through the
front glass windows of the storefront). A street sign, visible in the scene,
shows that the scene was shot at a storefront at the 500 block
of W. 6th Street (near the corner
of 6th & Olive) in downtown Los Angeles.(near
Pershing Square and the Biltmore Hotel).

Remember the
scene where the "Fight Club" vandals erase the video tapes
on the shelves of a video store by
running a magnetic degausser over them? That was shot at an actual BlockbusterVideo,6340 Wilshire Blvd. (west
of Fairfax, east of San Vicente), in the mid-Wilshire area of Los
Angeles.

When EdNorton
is flying around the country, looking for info on the Fight Club franchises,
he encounters a clerk in a drycleaners
who refuses to tell him anything, he just nervously mumbles a mantra about
not being able to talk. Ed replies, with a shrug: "You're a moron."
That dry cleaners scene was shot at an actual dry cleaners: S & H Cleaners,
located at 511 S. Spring Street
(at 5thStreet),
on the south side of downtown Los Angeles.
*

* Locations
marked with an asterisk may be located in high-crime areas. Exercise reasonable
caution.

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Some of the photos on this
page are stills from the DVD of "Fight Club"
(which you can buy by clicking
here) and are copyright 20th Century Fox .